Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.
Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.